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English
Etymology
From Mary (“female name”). Compare nan and nancy.
Pronunciation
Noun
mary (plural marys)
- Alternative letter-case form of Mary (“male homosexual”)
Synonyms
Anagrams
Middle English
Noun
mary
- Alternative form of marow
Middle French
Alternative forms
Noun
mary m (plural marys)
- husband
Descendants
Polish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old Polish mary. Cognate with Czech máry and German Bahre.
Noun
mary nvir pl
- (literary) bier (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
- Synonym: (obsolete) tragi
- (literary) bier, catafalque (platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed)
- Synonym: katafalk
Declension
Declension of mary
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plural
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| nominative
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mary
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| genitive
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mar
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| dative
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marom
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| accusative
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mary
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| instrumental
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marami
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| locative
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marach
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| vocative
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mary
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Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
mary f
- inflection of mara:
- genitive singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural
Further reading
- mary in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- mary in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “mary”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “mary”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna